US Patent Issued to ROLLS-ROYCE on Sept. 16 for "Containment structure" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,333, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE plc (London).

"Containment structure" was invented by Victor P A Medeau (London), Silvestre T Pinho (London), Lorenzo Mencattelli (London), Emile S Greenhalgh (London), Soraia Pimenta (London), Paul Robinson (London), MohammadErfan Kazemi (London) and James A Finlayson (Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A containment structure for a propulsion device, comprising a plurality of laminates arranged in a stack for absorbing projectile impact from the propulsion device, each laminate comprising a multi-ply composite of fibre reinforcement material and matr...